Week of January 8th- 12th Letter Jj

January 8, 2018

Dear Parents,

Welcome back everyone!!! We hope you all had a fantastic Winter Break. 
We wish you the best of the best in this New Year! 
We are ready to continue learning and having fun  in Kindergarten . 

This Friday January 12th is a half day. 
2nd Quarter conferences will be held in the afternoon. If I do not request a conference and you would like to meet, please let me know so we can set up an appointment.

There will be NO SCHOOL on Monday JANUARY 15th. We will be commemorating Martin King Luther Jr.'s Birthday.

Classes resume on Tuesday January 16th.

This week we are going to be working with the letter Jj. The vocabulary words that we are going to be focusing on are: jelly, juice, jar, jump rope, jeans, jeep, jacket, jet, jacks, jellybeans, jewelry, jaguar, jug, and jack-o'-lantern.

If you have any items at home that begin with this letter, send them over with your child and we will be discussing them in class, we will display them on a table and we will return them back on Friday. The kids get excited to bring things from home.

Some stories that we are going to be reading with the children are:

But no jaguars love it more than Jeremy! We will join Jeremy as he makes jam at the Jungleberry Jamboree!

The story begins with a sweet brown bear taking a berry picking adventure with a curious little boy. As they go about their berry-finding expedition, the illustrator depicts each scene with enormous imagination and creativity.

This is the turtle that slid into the pond and ate the snake that dropped from a branch and swallowed the fish that swam after the frog -- JUMP, FROG, JUMP!" This infectious cumulative tale will soon have the young frogs you know jumping and chanting with joy.

Muffy is having a Spring Fling party complete with the Egg Push, the Bunny Hop and the Jelly Bean Hunt for the grand prize of a huge chocolate egg! Everyone wants to win, but poor Arthur is so slow at everything. While the others fill their bags, Arthur finds one, then two, ever so slowly. Who will win the Jelly Bean Hunt?

We will be studying the life of Martin Luther King This week. Learning about his dream and vision for the world.

We are back with sight words. During the month of December we practiced all the 41 sight words the children should know up to now. 
The sight words that we are going to be introducing this week are: 

not, like, we, my,but.

Please take 15 minutes every day to practice with your child. It is very important for your child to recognize all the sight  words we have covered in class so far. 

Once they can recognize sight words it is going to be a lot easier for them to read books.

Click on the following link to find a fun game to play with your child at home

http://www.dolchword.net/dolch-pre-primer-memory-game-1.html

In Math we are going to be introducing the concept of number patterns. Students will write numbers up to thirty. Students will counting up to 100 by 10's and 5's. 
We are going to work on reading  and creating a bar graph.

In Phonemic Awareness we are going to be working with Onset/Rime. The "onset" is the initial phonological unit of any word (e.g. c in cat) and the term "rime" refers to the string of letters that follow, usually a vowel and final consonants (e.g. at in cat). Not all words have onsets. Similar to rhyme, onset and rime helps them recognize common chunks within words. This can help kids decode new words when reading and spell words when writing.

  

In Science we are going to begin our Weather Unit. Talking about different types of weather and the seasons of the year.